StyleCrush: Hantise de L’oubli’s Stacey Louidor

Today’s StyleCrush is Stacey Louidor of Hantise de L’oubli. This first-generation Caribbean style queen defines “summer goth” in her South Florida paradise with her beautiful vividly colored natural hair or protective hairstyles and indie fashion edge.

Name: My name is Stacey LouidorAge: I am 25 years oldLocation: Currently based in Fort Lauderdale, FloridaBlog/Brand: My beloved blog, hantisedeloubli.com, is quite neglected right now, but I plan on being active again soon!Where can we find you on the web? (Twitter, IG, FB, etc.): Instagram and tumblr: @hantisedeloubli and hantisedeloubli.tumblr.com

WYV: How do you describe your style?

Stacey: I pride myself in having an alternative and somewhat eclectic style. Black is my favorite color and I love collars and fetish-inspired fashion. However, I also like dressing up and exploring fashion from the ’70s and ’90s, and pinup couture as well.

Stacey: My blog was created as an outlet for my depression. I wanted to give myself purpose while encouraging fat black individuals out there to be bold in their clothing, makeup and hair choices. I hadn’t realized how much representation mattered until I myself was influenced by bloggers of color, and in turn started impacting fellow alt black people and people of color in their self-discovery journeys.

WYV: Who are your three StyleCrushes?

Stacey: Three StyleCrushes of mine are model and blogger Isabel Hendrix; Yeha Leung, owner and designer of Creepyyeha; and the co-owner of Witch World Wide, Alyssa Thralls (AKA Alyssa Panda Eyes).

Stacy: After years of being told that I was too dark or too fat, or that being alternative was only for white people, I make sure to wear as loud a voice as possible. I blog about fashion, and online people know me for having a loud blue and black afro. It definitely goes beyond all of that. Most of my life I thought that I was part of the background, that I couldn’t stand out. I have grown to become a better version of myself than I ever thought possible. I make sure to cover all the noise and negative vibes I get from people who don’t want to acknowledge or accept me. After all, I am the one living in this skin and happy doing it.

Laurel Dickman is an intersectional feminist, plus size model, stylist, and fat activist that can also be found via her blog, Exile In Dietville and the music magazine SF Sounds. She grew up in the south between Florida and North Carolina, migrating to the Portland, OR in 2005. All three places inform her perspective of the world around her a great deal. While in Portland, she worked with the Alley 33 Annual Fashion Show, PudgePDX, PDX Fatshion, Plumplandia, and numerous other projects over the near decade that she was there. In August of 2014, she moved to the Bay area with her partner, David and trusty kitty, Dorian Gray. She continues her body positive and intersectional feminism through various forms of activism, fashion, photography projects, and writing mostly in the East Bay. She can be reached at [email protected] and encourages readers to reach out to her to work on future projects together.